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fully collected, what was any way proper for my argument, out of 
all those authors which my slender library would afford; nay, and 
that of a very good one too, which my very kind and friendly 
neighbour, the reverend and learned Mr. Robert Burscough, vicar 
of Totnes, is furnished with all, the free use whereof he hath been 
pleas’d to indulge me.” 
This Mr. Burscough had also a good collection of manuscripts, 
which are now preserved in the Harleian Collection, and he was him- 
self an author, having written some theological works, one of which 
he published in 1701, the same year as the Worthies appeared. 
Not merely did Prince collect carefully all he could of his 
heroes, but with equal care he quaintly wrote of them, inter- 
spersing his accounts with touches which show us his own views 
and opinions very clearly. I have already referred to his super- 
stitious views, which crop up again and again, and to his stern 
denunciation of the sequestrators. Similar denunciations might be 
quoted of Cromwell, and the Parliamentary party generally, and 
extracts given showing his love for the Stuarts, and especially for 
the Royal Martyr. One I cannot omit, referring to a statement 
that Charles I., when Prince of Wales, had broken his word to one 
William Hakewill, by telling his father, James I., that which he 
had promised to keep secret. Prince says: ‘‘I am not willing to 
believe so good and just a Prince (as Charles I.) was ever guilty of 
so much perfidiousness ; I am rather persuaded it came to the king’s 
knowledge some other way;” and nowhere, perhaps, is his devo- 
tion to the house of Stuart so apparent as in his sketch of Sir 
Thomas Clifford, first Lord Clifford, the C. of ‘‘ Cabal,” at the 
Restoration M.P. for Totnes, and in consequence his sketch, though 
not false, is to a great extent spoilt by the partiality shown. 
How sad he is too when he writes of Church spoliation, and when 
he refers to his own troubles, though what they were is not very 
clear, unless we are to suppose that the Puritans of Totnes troubled 
him during his ministry there, or Edward Seymour while at Berry. 
He says, speaking of the charges against Bishop Bronescombe, 
‘‘T am no way willing (having suffered so severely under ’em) to 
become the advocate of oppression or injustice in any, though a 
father.’? And again, writing of Sir Simon Baskervile, Knight, a 
physician, he says, ‘‘ There is moreover something remarkable 
recorded of him, that he was a great friend to the clergy (God 
knows, they have but few in this age).’”’ Nor are there wanting 
